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Unsex

Unsex | Unsexy | Unsexiest

Unsex meaning

To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics. | To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate.

Example sentences (1)

Richard Polwhele targeted her in particular in his anonymous long poem The Unsex'd Females (1798), a defensive reaction to women's literary self-assertion: Hannah More is Christ to Wollstonecraft's Satan.